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    A Bicycle for Rosaura, book cover (fair copyright use) Barbot, Daniel
    Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 1991, 26p
    Book details at OpenLibrary
    Senora Amelia loves animals. In this lively and cheery story from Venezuela, you will see to what lengths she will go in order to grant her handsome hen Rosaura a birthday wish. The delicate colored pencil drawings lend warmth and charm to this tale. Their color and light precisely portray the sense of place--a small town in Venezuela.
    Recommended for grades CP and above | | Date: 2011-11-09

    A Christmas Carol, book cover (fair copyright use) Dickens, Charles
    Chapman & Hall, 1843; MacMillan 2005...
    Book details at OpenLibrary
    Book/Author article in Wikipedia
    Find Extract here: books.google.com/boo...
    An allegorical novella descibing the rehabilitation of bitter, miserly businessman Ebenezer Scrooge. The reader is witness to his transformation as Scrooge is shown the error of his ways by the ghost of former partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present and future.
     
    Free online scanned original edition at archive.org:
     
    Recommended for grades 6e and above | | Date: 2011-11-09

    A Midsummer Night’s Dream, book cover (fair copyright use) Shakespeare, William
    1596 play; Cambridge University Press - New Edition, 2005
    Book details at OpenLibrary
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    One night two young couples run into an enchanted forest in an attempt to escape their problems. But these four humans do not realize that the forest is filled with fairies and hobgoblins who love making mischief. When Oberon, the Fairy King, and his loyal hobgoblin servant, Puck, intervene in human affairs, the fate of these young couples is magically and hilariously transformed. Like a classic fairy tale, this retelling of William Shakespeare's most beloved comedy is perfect for older readers who will find much to treasure and for younger readers who will love hearing the story read aloud.

    Free online scanned original edition at archive.org:
    Recommended for grades 4e and above | | Date: 2011-11-10

    A Raisin in the Sun, book cover (fair copyright use) Hansberry, Lorraine
    1959 play; Random House, 1959
    Book details at OpenLibrary
    Book/Author article in Wikipedia
    Find Extract here: www.amazon.com/Raisi...
    This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. When her deceased husband's insurance money comes through, Mama dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, a chauffeur, has other plans, however: buying a liquor store and being his own man. Beneatha dreams of medical school.
    Recommended for grades 3e and above | | Date: 2011-11-10

    An Inspector Calls, book cover (fair copyright use) Priestly, J.B.
    1946 play; Penguin, 2001
    Book details at OpenLibrary
    Book/Author article in Wikipedia
    First performed in 1945 in the Soviet Union and 1946 in the UK ,and conveying a strong -if not manicheist- political message, the play is a three-act drama, which takes place on a single night in 1912, and focuses on the prosperous middle-class Birling family, who live in a comfortable home in Brumley, "an industrial city in the north Midlands". The family is visited by a man calling himself Inspector Goole, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman, Eva Smith (also known as Daisy Renton). The family are interrogated and revealed to have been responsible for the young woman's exploitation, abandonment and social ruin, effectively leading to her death. Long considered part of the repertory of classic "drawing room” theatre, the play has also been hailed as a scathing critique of the hypocrisies of Victorian/Edwardian English society and as an expression of Priestley’s Socialist political principles.
    Recommended for grades 4e and above | | Date: 2011-11-10

    Animal Farm, book cover (fair copyright use) Orwell, George
    Penguin Books, 1945
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    An allegory on the realities of communism, from a capitalist point of view, Animal Farm tells a story of a farm in which the animals decide to rule themselves, and all animals are equal. The inevitable catch, as the reader will come to find out, is that all societies tend to have a ruling class. When all the decent members of society try to adhere to the social rules of equality for everyone, the role of leadership and authority is left to the pigs.
    Recommended for grades 3e and above | | Date: 2011-11-10

    Animal Soup, book cover (fair copyright use) Whybrow, Ian
    Green Books, 2007, 32p
    Book details at OpenLibrary
    Book/Author article in Wikipedia
    Oliver waves his magic wand and...Abracadabra! His Animal Soup comes to life! Watch out for crocodiles, hippos, elephants and whales in this spectacular soupy adventure!
    Recommended for grades CP and above | | Date: 2011-11-09

    Antony and Cleopatra, book cover (fair copyright use) Shakespeare, William
    Play; 1st Folio 1623; Cambridge School Schakespeare, 1994
    Book details at OpenLibrary
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    Find Extract here: www.amazon.com/Anton...
    The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide. The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumviri and the future first emperor of Rome.
     
    Free online scanned 1st Folio original edition at Shakespeare folios digital collections:
     
    Free online scanned 1758 edition at Google Books:
     
    Free online scanned Yale University Press 1921 edition at archive.org:
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    Recommended for grades 1ère and above | | Date: 2011-11-10

    Arcadia, book cover (fair copyright use) Stoppard, Tom
    1993 play; Faber and Faber, 1993
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    Set in Sidley Park, an English country house, in the years 1809,1812 and 1989, the play juxtaposes the activities of two modern scholars and the house's current residents with the lives of those who lived there 180 years earlier.
    Recommended for grades 1ère and above | | Date: 2011-11-10

    Because of Winn-Dixie, book cover (fair copyright use) DiCamillo, Kate
    Candlewick, 2000, 192
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    Find Extract here: www.amazon.com/Becau...
    Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

    Winner of a Newbery Honor distinction
    Josette Frank Award
    Mark Twain Award
    Recommended for grades CM1 and above | | Date: 2011-11-09

    Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?, book cover (fair copyright use) Waddell, Martin
    Discovery Toys, 1988, 29p
    Book details at OpenLibrary
    Book/Author article in Wikipedia
    It's bedtime, and Little Bear can't get to sleep. He's frightened of the dark, the dark all around, which not even Big Bear's largest lantern can light up. Big Bear finds a way to show Little Bear that there is no need to be afraid. The Smarties Price
    Recommended for grades CP and above | | Date: 2011-11-09

    Carrie’s War, book cover (fair copyright use) Bawden, Nina
    Puffin Modern Classics, 2005, 141p
    Book details at OpenLibrary
    Book/Author article in Wikipedia
    Albert, Carrie and young Nick are war-time evacuees whose lives get so tangled up with the people they've come to live among that the war and their real families seem to belong to another world.
    Carrie and Nick are billeted in Wales with old Mr Evans, who is so mean and cold, and his timid mouse of a sister, Lou, who suddenly starts having secrets. Their friend Albert is luckier, living in Druid's Bottom with warm-hearted Hepzibah Green and the strange Mister Johnny, who can talk to animals but not to human beings. Carrie and Nick visit him there whenever they can for Hepzibah makes life exciting and enticing with her stories and delicious cooking. Gradually they begin to feel more at ease in their war-time home, but then, in trying to heal the rift between Mr Evans and his estranged sister, and save Druid's Bottom, Carrie does a terrible thing which is to haunt her for years to come. Carrie revisits Wales as an adult and tells the story to her own children.

    Phoenix Award
    Recommended for grades CM2 and above | | Date: 2011-11-09

    Daniel's Duck, book cover (fair copyright use) Bulla, Clyde Robert
    Harper and Row, 1982, 60p
    Book details at OpenLibrary
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    Find Extract here: www.amazon.com/Danie...
    A novice wood carver is momentarily defeated when people laugh at the result of a winter of work. Daniel is hurt when others laugh at his wood carving, until he learns that giving people pleasure takes a very special gift. "Good, warm feelings result from reading this gentle tale set in rural Tennessee during pioneer days"
    Recommended for grades CE1 and above | | Date: 2011-11-09

    Dart, book cover (fair copyright use) Oswald, Alice
    Faber and Faber, 2002
    Book details at OpenLibrary
    Book/Author article in Wikipedia
    Find Extract here: www.amazon.com/Dart-...
    Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and canoeists - and are interlinked with historic and mythic voices, drowned voices, dreaming voices and marginal notes which act as markers along the way.

     T. S. Eliot Prize
    Recommended for grades 1ère and above | | Date: 2011-11-10

    Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales, book cover (fair copyright use) Stevenson, Robert Louis
    Longmans, Green & co., 1886
    Book details at OpenLibrary
    Book/Author article in Wikipedia
    Find Extract here: www.amazon.com/Stran...
    Stevenson’s famous gothic novella, first published in 1886, and filmed countless times is better known simply as Jekyll and Hyde. The first novel to toy with the idea of a split personality, it features the respectable Dr. Jekyll transforming himself into the evil Mr Hyde in a failed attempt to learn more about the duality of man.

    Free online scanned original edition at archive.org:

    Recommended for grades 4e and above | | Date: 2011-11-10

    Fahrenheit 451, book cover (fair copyright use) Bradbury, Ray
    Ballantine Books, 1953
    Book details at OpenLibrary
    Book/Author article in Wikipedia
    Find Extract here: www.amazon.com/Fahre...
    The novel presents a future American society where reading is outlawed and firemen start fires to burn books. 
    Recommended for grades 3e and above | | Date: 2011-11-10

    Harry and the bucketful of dinosaurs, book cover (fair copyright use) Whybrow, Ian
    Alison Green Books, 2003, 32p
    Book details at OpenLibrary
    Book/Author article in Wikipedia
    Harry found a box of dinosaurs in the attic. He cleaned them and repaired them. He was moved to research the names of each dinosaur. He took very good care of them and they went everywhere with him. One day on an exciting trip with his grandma on a train he forgot them and they were left behind on the train. His gran bought him a video to take their place. But that couldn't replace them. He is inconsolable. Finally Gran takes him to the train station to check the lost and found. Harry has to prove they are his by naming them, which he does. His dinosaurs are happy to see him and they whisper to him "You are definitely our Harry, definitely!" .

    Sheffield Children’s Book Award
    The Norfolk Libraries Children’s Book Award
    Recommended for grades CP and above | | Date: 2011-11-09

    Holes, book cover (fair copyright use) Sachar, Louis
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998
    Book details at OpenLibrary
    Book/Author article in Wikipedia
    Find Extract here: books.google.com/boo...
    As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

    Newbery Medal
    Recommended for grades 6e and above | | Date: 2011-11-09

    Kensuke’s Kingdom, book cover (fair copyright use) Morpurgo, Michael
    Egmont Books Ltd, 1999, 164p
    Book details at OpenLibrary
    Book/Author article in Wikipedia
    Find Extract here: www.amazon.com/Kensu...
    When Michael's parents lose their jobs, they buy a boat and decide to sail around the world with their son and their beloved dog. It's an ideal trip - until Michael is swept overboard. He's washed up on an island, where he struggles to survive. Then he discovers that he's not alone. His fellow-castaway, Kensuke, keeps his distance at first. But when Michael's life is threatened, he slowly lets the boy into his world. The two teach and learn from each other until, inevitably, they must part ways.

    Red House Children's Book Award
    Recommended for grades CM1 and above | | Date: 2011-11-09

    King Richard III, book cover (fair copyright use) Shakespeare, William
    1597 play; Cambridge University Press, 2005
    Book details at OpenLibrary
    Book/Author article in Wikipedia
    Find Extract here: books.google.com/boo...
    "containing his treacherous plots against his brother Clarence, the pittiefull murther of his innocent nephewes, his tyrannicall usurpation, with the whole course of his detested life and most deserved death"
    (Subtitle of the 1597 edition.)

    Free online scanned T.Hughes London 1823 edition at archive.org:

    Free online scanned Francis Hart & Co 1878 edition at archive.org::

    Free online scanned Blackie & Sons, The Warwick Sharespeare, 1896 edition at archive.org::
    Recommended for grades 3e and above | | Date: 2011-11-10

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